CVE-2010-5148: Websense Web Filter

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Websense Web Security and Web Filter before 7.1 Hotfix 21 do not set the secure flag for the Encrypted Session (SSL) cookie in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session.

Affected products

• Websense Websense Web Filter: up to and including 7.0
• Websense Websense Web Security: up to and including 7.0

Published 2012-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.